Just some clarifications and (hopefully) helpful notes about AI-generated code.

Without direction, AI will just spit out anything it "thinks" works.

But we all know that SDL is "special".

At least with GPT-5, I can tell it to remember my coding style, and give it
certain rules to follow.

If you see code with lowercase identifiers, then it's probably from before I
puzzled all of that out.

I've tried to have it generate code with capitalized identifiers, and prepending
all of the ID's with the type:  S_ for scalar, V_ for vector, Arr_ for array,
etc.

It also sometimes drops * for multiplication and just concatenates two ID's
together - just insert that * and that line of code should work.

It tries to do c++ style "functions", both by writing multi-line code with
#declares or #locals, and also by naming the output value and providing that as
part of the input parameters.

Just change
#macro MacroName (ID1, ID2, ID3)

#end

to

#macro MacroName (ID1, ID2)

ID3
#end

and then in the macro call, change:

MacroName (ID1, ID2, ID3)

to

#declare ID3 = MacroName (ID1, ID2);

- BE

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